Thursday, February 7, 2008

Can’t open Outlook Express, How to Recover it

Outlook Express is the most useful and most widely used mail client that comes bundled with windows operating system. Due to its widespread use, different people face different kind of problems with it. The common problem that you may face is can not open Outlook Express.
Sometimes when you try to start your Outlook Express, you may get any one of the following error message on your screen-

  • Outlook Express could not be started because Msoe.dll could not be initialized
  • Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to start the Internet Account Manager. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk may be full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance. (0x80007114)

This error may occur if the Identities registry key of Outlook Express is either missing or corrupted. It leads a situation where your Outlook Express can not be initialized and your operating system fails to open it. This is the worst scenario of data loss, in this case you even can not open the Outlook Express and all the files including mails, notes, calendar and attachments become inaccessible.
But it is not a permanent problem, Microsoft has provided a patch for this problem, that can be used to repair your Outlook Express registry files and you can do Outlook Express file recovery. You can use this patch by following these steps:

  • Rename the Main Identity subkey.
  • Back up entity identities subkeys.
  • Remove the Identities subkey
  • Re-build you Identities subkeys.
  • Re-build e-mail and news accounts

This is the patch provided by the Microsoft to solve this kind of problems, but Microsoft does not guarantee that this patch will work successfully. If you use it incorrectly, then it may cause serious problems and may corrupt your operating system.

It is also possible that you have used this patch at your own risk and you have done it successfully. But it may happen that during this period, some of your important information has lost. This is the serious situation for you and you are not able to access the files stored in your Outlook Express account.
Don’t panic. This is not such a big problem as you think. You can repair your corrupted Outlook Express files very easily. You can perform this task with the help of Outlook recovery software.

Outlook Express recovery software can repair your corrupted .mbx and .dbx files (depending on the version of Outlook Express you are using) and also can recover the deleted Outlook Express files. These Outlook Express recovery software are very easy to use and user friendly software that can help you in repairing and recovery all your lost mails, contacts, notes and other data stored in Outlook Express.

There are numerous Outlook Express recovery software available in the market that can help you in getting back your lost Outlook Express data. Among all these software, Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Standard- email recovery software is the wonderful Outlook Express recovery software that can recover or repair data from both .mbx and .dbx files.